In 2014, the Can-Am League announced that a fifth team, based in Ottawa, would join the league for 2015. My, how things have…, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION GRADS SCHERZER, PERALTA WANT TO GET BETTER The average American Association player no doubt goes home at the end of the season with a list of ideas what he needs to do during the winter in order to improve the chances of taking his career to new levels in the future. The Ottawa Champions won their first ever title in just their second season, defeating the Rockland Boulders in the fifth and deciding game of the league championships, played on September 17. The North Shore Spirit was a minor-league baseball team based in Lynn, Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007.

The Northern League was an independent minor professional baseball league.
MOORHEAD, MINN. – Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks General Manager Matt Rau has been voted the 2020 American Association Executive of the Year, the league office announced today. At the end of the 2013 season, due to the Tucson Padres relocating to their city, the El Paso Diablos suspended operations. The team's name is a derivative of the nearby Boston Red Sox of the American League and a tribute to the boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, both from Brockton. In 2003, the Lumberjacks played in Orono at Larry Mahaney Diamond and in 2004 they played at Bangor's Winkin Sports Complex. ‡ Inactive list This won’t really affect the Atlantic League, but will cause an impact on the American Association … For the 2012 season, the American Association began interleague play with the Can-Am League. The Frontier League's schedule does not include the Champions for the 2020 season. The league has 10 pitchers and Arizona outfielder David Peralta (Wichita and Amarillo) on 40-man rosters, while the…, SIOUX CITY’S MARKEL HAS CONTRACT PURCHASED BY MARINERS MOORHEAD, MN – The contract of RHP Parker Markel of the Sioux City Explorers has been purchased by the Seattle Mariners organization, the American Association announced on Monday. The team moved to Maine following the 2002 season. Typically the American Association recruits college, ex-major and ex-minor players. It was the league's 13th season of operations. In 2015, the city of Grand Prairie paid off the debt to build the stadium. The team was originally known as the Waterbury Spirit, based out of Waterbury, Connecticut. Scholten’s name has not been seen in an American Association box score since 2007, yet the 38-year-old former pitcher has been very much in the news this fall. Kash Beauchamp served as the team's manager. The Nashua Pride franchise was sold and was known in 2009 as the American Defenders of New Hampshire because of the military tie-ins of its new ownership group. [1] Later, however, the Commissioner stated the need for a "fresh start" and opened a contest to select a new name for the team.

[3] [4] The team remained in Grand Prairie full-time in 2017, with the Cleburne Railroaders joining the league the same season. The Pelicans moved to Amarillo, Texas and became the Amarillo Sox (later the Amarillo Thunderheads) while Shreveport, who had changed their name to the Shreveport-Bossier Captains, moved to Laredo, Texas and became the Laredo Lemurs. Dan Duquette, current Executive Vice-President of Baseball Operations for the Baltimore Orioles, is also part of the ownership group, which is known as Boston Baseball All-Stars LLC. Certain players are given coaching duties, by which to earn additional pay. The Laredo Lemurs were a professional baseball team based in Laredo, Texas, that played in the independent American Association from 2012 to 2016. Transactions, Disabled list They are currently league-less with the Can-Am League and the Frontier League merging. Teams can carry at most four veterans and must carry at least five rookies. James Kash Beauchamp is an American professional baseball coach. FORMER EXPLORERS HURLER SWITCHES TO POLITICS, NEARLY PULLS UPSET J.D. They won their first league championship in 2016 defeating the Rockland Boulders 3-2 after being down 2-0 in the series, winning game 5, 3-1 with a complete game win by Austin Chrismon.

A league salary cap is a maximum amount that can be spent on the entire player roster. It operates in the central United States and Canada, mostly in cities not served by Major League Baseball teams or their minor league affiliates. Tyler Daschier Herron is a right-handed professional baseball pitcher for the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. The league has operated a traveling team whenever necessary to provide an even number of teams. Since the 2001 season, the Saltdogs have played their home games at Haymarket Park, which they share with the Nebraska Cornhuskers college baseball team. On October 16, 2019, the independent Frontier League announced that it was merging with the Can-Am League for the 2020 season. The New York Boulders are an American independent professional baseball team playing in the Frontier League based in Pomona, Rockland County, New York. The 2019 Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball season began May 16 and ended September 2. Lee was signed by the T-Bones on July 4 and posted a 3.26 ERA…, BENCOMO LEADS OVER THREE DOZEN A.A. GRADS IN WINTER BALL By Bob Wirz It was not so many years ago when Independent Baseball players had a difficult time landing opportunities to play in the various winter leagues. The Northern League was an independent minor professional baseball league. The Trois-Rivières Aigles are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Over the years, the league has hosted teams from Cuba, Japan and the Dominican Republic. In its inaugural season, the Can-Am League kept the two-division setup and half-season format that the Northeast League had. It was the 12th season of operation for this professional independent baseball league. The Goldeyes were champions of the Northern League in 1994. The Boulders and the rest of the teams in the Can-Am League were absorbed into the Frontier League when the two leagues merged following the 2019 season. [5] They were temporarily replaced by the Salina Stockade from the Pecos League for the season.
For 2007, the Atlantic City Surf joined from the Atlantic League, and the league re-established The Grays, after a year of dormancy, as a tenth team. The Sussex County Miners are a professional independent league baseball team based in the Augusta section of Frankford Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. Just because of the longevity and tradition, we usually don't get the best cities, either, so some of the markets we're in are not great markets.

For the 2005 season, the Northeast League accepted the Worcester Tornadoes as a new eighth team. The Québec Capitales are a professional baseball team based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.